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  • In Support of User-Generated

    In 1979, a British Band named The Buggles released a song that almost all reading have heard at some point in their lives. Chances are most people haven’t seen the video, which is slightly ironic considering its status as the first…

  • Birth of a Marketplace

    To balance out this week’s Digital Thoughts, where we look at the incredibly non-direct marketing world of MySpace and YouTube, in this week’s Trends Report, we focus closer to our roots by looking at a company that has come a…

  • Site Age in Rankings – The New Toolbar PageRank (in a bad way)

    No, I don’t mean it’s the new “most important” component of the Google algorithm. I mean it’s the one that probably isn’t that important but causes people to OBSESS. Just like toolbar PageRank has done for years.

  • Personal Service and Privacy

    According to a new survey called “Personalization Survey” released by ChoiceStream, it seems that consumers are warming up to the idea of exchanging personal information for an enhanced, more personal…

  • E-Mail Sites Losing Their Allure to Advertisers

    New numbers released by Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance show that e-mail sites received 44.2% of online display ads in December 2006. This number shows a noticeable decline from November’s 47.5% and October’s 51.1%.

  • MTV and Maybelline Launch Education Contest

    MTV and Maybelline New York have launched a program that will award a $25,000 scholarship to a female student that best embodies the theme of empowerment through education.

  • Advario Developers and Partners Summit

    You are cordially invited to attend the Advario Developers and Partners Summit, January 13th through the 15th, 2007 in Santa Barbara California and via the World Wide Web. This summit is being held for publishers, developers…

  • ChaCha Receives Funding, Hints at New Stage of Search

    Google may be the undisputed king of search, but for some reason new search engines keep popping up. And probably for good reason. There are niches and methods of delivering information that just can’t be bottled up in a…

  • Heavy.com Gets Fifth Round of Funding

    Just as Google’s dominance has failed to end the spawning of more search engines, the fairytale that is YouTube has not discouraged other video sites from pursuing greatness in their own, smaller-scale forms.

  • Mobile Gaming to Exceed $6 Billion

    According to iSuppli Corp., the worldwide mobile gaming industry will surpass $6.1 billion in 2010. This is a far cry from the $1.8 billion the industry realized in 2005.